I have installed axiom-Sept2005-FC4-bin.tgz on Fedora Core 5 (in /usr/local), following the instructions in the download page, but execution of axiom does not produce any proper output. Ie it produces a pair of blank lines and closes again, returning the prompt to the console. On the other hand, axiom -h works.

Some variations occur, eg with option noclef it closes without blank lines, and with iw it opens an X term for a second and then it closes.
And here some other ones: